[kezlou]

Basic Focaccia Bread Recipe

250grams of plain flour
 ½ teaspoon of salt
7g of fast action yeast
4 garlic cloves thinly sliced & chopped
1tbsp of olive oil
150ml of warm water

Toppings and fillings

If you wish to put fillings in aka olives put it with the flour, salt and yeast, the added bits will just disappear into the dough as the bread rises.

Mix flour salt yeast and garlic into a bowl.
Make a well in the centre and add olive oil and water.
Mix thoroughly in to a soft dough.
Knead the dough on a floured surface for about 10 – 15 mins.
Put the dough into a bowl with either a tea towel or a plastic carrier bag over the top.
Leave till it doubles up (about 45 mins)
Then get the dough and knead for 30 seconds again.
Roll out into desired shape to about ½ inch thick
Place the dough onto a greased baking tray and cover with tea towel or greased Clingfilm

Leave for 30mins till it rises again.

Preheat oven to gas mark 7.
Take film / tea towel off dough and make dents in it with your fingers spread about 3 tbsp of oil over the top.

Place in oven for about 25 mins or till lightly browned. Drizzle about 1tbsp of olive oil over the top and serve.

[Poolfield2]

Thanks for that Kezzy, I was suprised it was plain flour not bread flour, as I can't eat much wheat I'm going to have a go with Spelt flour which I can tolerate a bit better than wheat. It has less gluten so should be suitable for a plain flour recipe.

[kezlou]

OOh i'll have that myself, i'm wheat intolerant but i'm naughty and still it. Sorry i will always love bread from baby to grave its the one thing i can live without oh and potatoes.

What kind of ratio do you use for spelt flour? If you don't mind me asking.
THanks

[Poolfield2]

Ooooo I've been naughty today and now I feel rough, why do we do it when we know what will follow?? I ate a rock cake made with wheat and I knew it was made with wheat cos I made it.

I usually completely replace plain flour with spelt but I don't know how well it will turn out as I haven't tried it yet. However I did do this recipe earlier in the year and we loved it. Sorry it's not a very precise amount of yoghurt but you get different texture depending on how much you add.

Spelt Bakestone Bread

300g spelt
1.25 tsp bicarb
0.25 tsp salt
175 mls (more or less according to how you like the bread)NaturalYoghurt

Mix dry ingredients add youghurt and mix. Roll out dough to bit less than 1cm. Cut small circles with a biscuit cutter. Cook on a buttered medium hot bakestone or heavy frying pan for a few minutes each side til well risen and brown. Leave to cool on a rack then split and butter.

[kezlou]

thats sounds yummy thanks carol

Will try that tomorrow!

I know what we do to ourselves, got loads of home made bread that i made on Friday why did i do it to myself. Ah why are all good things so naughty.